27 of the Scariest Scenes in Otherwise Unscary Movies
Listen, not all of us are spooky season movie marathoners. Maybe you prefer to curl up with a nice, soothing period drama instead of a slasher on a rainy October night, and you know what? That’s okay. Don’t let the true-crime ghouls convince you that you have to get comfy with blood and guts to have a good fall time.
Sometimes, though, a movie you weren’t expecting to contain any springs it on you anyway. For example, The Green Mile is largely a drama, and unless you know it’s based on a Stephen King novel, you have no reason to expect it to get scary. However, “The dry sponge execution in The Green Mile is the most horrifying scene in any piece of media I have ever seen (I’m a horror movie coward), and nothing comes close,” Redditor _JR28_ vowed to r/Movies.
“The music is terror and hopelessness personified, the visual of Eduard’s body spasming and burning is chilling and the reactions of the characters is horrific: Everyone knows exactly what’s happening and understands the monstrousness of what they’re seeing, but they cannot step in to stop it.”
They then asked, “What is the scariest scene in a non-horror movie?” and their fellow Redditors brought all kinds of unexpected jump-scares.
Fire in the Sky
Inglourious Basterds
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Seven
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Training Day
The Brave Little Toaster
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Ghost
Mulholland Drive
Nocturnal Animals
Apocalypse Now
Spider-Man 2
Saving Private Ryan
Inception
Parasite
Trainspotting
Unbreakable
Jurassic Park
Independence Day
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Full Metal Jacket
The NeverEnding Story
King Kong
Zodiac
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
